this became the roman forum.y tossed out their king and established the relatively democratic roman republic. that began perhaps history's greatest success story, the rise of rome. from the start, romans were expert builders, and they had a knack for effective government. this simple brick building was once richly veneered with marble and fronted by a grand portico. it's the curia. the senate met here and set the legal standards that still guide western civilization. the reign of julius caesar, who ruled around the time of christ, marked the turning point between the republic and the empire. the republic, designed to rule a small city-state, found itself trying to rule most of europe. something new and stronger was needed. caesar established a no-nonsense, more-disciplined government, became dictator for life, and, for good measure, had a month named in his honor, july. the powerful elites of the republic found all this change just too radical. in an attempt to save the republic and their political power, a facti

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roman society prospered.lly bought land from neighbors who had fallen into debt. the sellers then labored for the new owners as tenant farmers. during the republican period in the first centuries before christ, the wealthiest families formed their own armies. their troops owed loyalty only to their individual general, and not to the state. by sharing power the families prevented any one leader from consolidating rulership. the family armies combined to conquer territories in europe and northern africa. some of the generals became very powerful. returning home after battle, even victorious generals had to petition the state for money and land to pay their armies. rewards for the troops were always uncertain. as the armies became more successful, they began to fight among themselves. finally, in 31 b.c., one general defeated his rivals to centralize rulership. augustus caesar became the first true emperor of rome. classics scholar mary beard inspects the house of augustus on rome's palatine hill. she believes t

i'm christine romans. john berman has the morning off. our top story, isis on a rampage seizing control of another key city. historic palmyra in syria. the second critical con quest in five days for isis. fighters took over ramadi. forcing u.s. to reassess the strategy. the focus is securing the province west of baghdad. i want to bring in senior correspondent arwa damon. taking ramadi and five days later, the important historical cultural city palmyra falls too. >> reporter: it's really heart breaking, christine, on so many levels. palmyra is spectacular. i visited it years ago as a tourist. it is showing how magnificent the culture is and lies on the trade route connecting the roman empire to persia and india. now the syrian government not fully acknowledging that but did say over the last few days as fighting intensified, it moved statues and artifacts out of areas where they were potentially going to be captured by isis. this city in and of itself is most certainly under threat. the strategic importance of palmyra is important as well

i'm christine romans. breaking news. a u.s.helicopter missing earlier this week has been found crashed in the mountains of nepal. a top ranking officer with nepal says the chopper was located on a mountain side east of kathmandu. six u.s. marines on the chopper helping with the earthquake relief efforts when radio contact was lost. i want to bring in cnn's will ripley from kathmandu. who was aboard the helicopter and what are they doing now to assess the scope of the damage if there are any survivors. >> reporter: eight people are board. six u.s. marines based in camp pendleton and two nepal soldiers. all trying to provide aid to the hardest hit regions from the two major earthquakes that hit the country. they were delivering aid in an area which is one of the hardest hit regions. that is where this helicopter has been found. about 21 miles east of where i'm standing right now. the helicopter was on a supply mission to drop off supplies and pick up injured and they never made it to the pick up point. there was a radio communica

i'm christine romans. >> i'm john berman. it is monday may 18th. a major victory for isis in iraq. ramadi falls to isis fighters. for months of flashclashes, forces burst into the city with armored bulldozers and ten suicide bombings. government forces have pulled out of a military base there. iraqi and u.s. officials say the fight for ramadi is not over. for the latest, let's bring in ian lee. >> reporter: good morning, john. isis is in control of ramadi. we are hearing of pockets of resistance. we know isis does not treat their captives well. for the most part, iraqi forces have pulled out following some very heavy fighting. 500 people have been killed in the final moments of the fall of ramadi. isis storming in and taking control of the area and seizing heavy weapons. they seized weapons and missiles and tanks. a big victory with the material and politically propaganda for them. also opens up a el salvadordoppler radar corridor. they are in control of fallujah. it is a fortified city but it puts them at the gates there. secretary of state john kerry traveling and commented on th

you can look at christine romans book. "smart is the new rich."parents paying for their kids' tuition. >> announcer: this is cnn breaking news. >>> welcome to "early start." we have breaking news. a 7.3 magnitude earthquake has hit nepal. the tremors felt as far as new delhi. the epicenter is near the nepalese city of namche near china. there have been six aftershocks. in kathmandu, 50 miles west of the epicenter, panicked crowds ran into the streets. 40 people are reported

and this is illustrated by the controversy that continues for over 1500 years from roman times of the 15 hundreds and 16 hundreds in the land of islam. this is one of the stories i tell him the book. in many ancient civilizations people noticed there were five things that there were five things in the sky that looked like stars and click the stars and the sun and the moon seemed to go around the earth once a day once every 24 hours from east to west but over time they moved from west to east through the constellations of the zodiac. the greeks call these planets and the names of god venus mercury, saturn and some like plato actually thought they were gods. when the ancients turned away from mythology and started to develop a naturalistic picture of what these planets were, two theories emerged which were the subject of debate as i said for 1500 years. this is not an argument between those that think the earth the earth is at rest and those that think the sun is at rest. everyone with a few interesting exceptions in the ancient world thought the earth was at rest and the things in the

which was a main place of warship and there is this roman theater. look at that.he 2nd century, never fully completed. palmyra is just full of very, very notable pieces of great archeological significance and great beauty. giant structures that you immediately spot as you approach the city. it's in syria, it's 130 miles northeast of damascus. a city of epic ruins on an epic scale. before the start of the civil war in syria, the ancient city of palmyra was syria's top tourist attraction. drives thousands of people to its oasis and arc logical sites this year. earlier this week, there were reports isis made it towards palmyra. yesterday, there were reports they entered pam mira. today we got the news isis has taken control of the city. both the modern part and the ancient part. malmira was overrun by isis militants. there are reports in the city still has a large civilian population that is still present even though isis has arrived. militants are reportedly going door-to-door, they say looking for syrian soldier the notable thing about this particular takeover is t

strapped roman candles to the bottom of the drowned. >> tragedy struck on wednesday.nd above ground school screen. >> i heard about the accident today with the pool have chills just thinking of the situation. >> so they decided to take a big before they had their twins. decided to go to portugal. twenty-three weeks pregnant five and a half months and they did get the okay from the dr. surprisingly she went into labor welfare. born on mother's day just over 1 pound each. now they are in intensive care and they are stuck there. we have them in studio via skype in portugal. bill: thank you for joining us. i do not know where to begin. however the babies doing. >> well, one thing we have learned as we have to be patient. and it really is one thing in the time. overall seem to be doing better but they are both doing well. bill: why are you stuck? why can't your kids be moved? >> too unstable. >> to take a a step back i just had a baby. the report i read is pretty shocking. >> we landed in portugal felt fine checked into the hotel, watch around a little bit went back to res

. >> nice to see you, everyone i'm christine romans. it's wednesday, may 20th 4:00 a.m.n the the east. takata the japanese automaker recalling air bags from get this 34 million vehicles. nearly 1 in every 7 cars on the road in the u.s. 1 in 6 cars on the road will need to be recalled. it's expected to be the biggest, most complex consumer recall in u.s. history. this will cost billions of dollars. it will take years to get those cars off the road and fixed and returned to service. at least five deaths. dozens of injuries are tied to these faulty air bags which can fire shrapnel into drivers' faces before when they deploy. includes bmws, ford toyotas. the majority of made by honda. cnn's will ripley is standing by. will this company has been pressured, i've heard, pressured by regulators even pressured by carmakers do this recall and now says yes, it will do it. how long is it going to take them to make the replacement kits and get these cars fixed? >> well they simply can't get the kits out fast enough christine. this new announcement doubling the recall 34 million vehic

i'm christine romans. let's get an early start on your money.et closed for memorial day. just a happy reminder. stocks are in record terrorist. dow up 2.3%. the nasdaq and s&p are doing better. what could trip up the bull market? an interest rate hike is coming. in a speech friday janet yellen says we can expect a hike before the end of the year despite stagnant wages, she is worried waiting to hit the targets would risk overheating the economy. the markets open in europe are lower right now. >>> 2016 presidential hopefuls promising the world, but the author of freakenomics says they are all wrong. politicians focus on raising money and getting elected instead of long-term problems. his solution we should pay them more. >> if arne duncan could raise test scores by 10% in ten years, we write a big fat check to arne duncan and people working to him. that's the way the world works. >> interesting. he also would like to pay teachers more based on performance. >>> speaking about buying a new car, there are a wide range of 0% deals. toyota camry and r

the romans conquered the local fishing tribe and set up camp.ame cathedral marks the place where a roman temple once stood. the city's first bishop, st. denis, holds his head in his hands. when christianity began making converts here, the pagan romans beheaded him. but according to legend, denis just picked up his head and kept on going. inspired by this miracle, christianity flourished, and the temple was replaced by a church. imagine the faith of the people who built this, breaking ground in 1163 on a building which wouldn't be finished for 200 years. gothic architects incorporated the latest technology, flying buttresses, to support the heavy rooftop. its ghoulish gargoyles multitask. they serve as fancy rain spouts and scare away the evil spirits. the church is dedicated to "our lady," or notre dame. mary cradles the baby jesus. the rose window provides a majestic halo. the virgin mary was highly revered throughout the middle ages. the faithful petitioned her in times of trouble for both comfort and, through her intervention, god's mercy. as

. >> i'm christine romans. it is thursday. breaking overnight, severe storms across the great plains spawning dozens ever tornadoes and dropping heavy rains with flash flooding. >> they are assessing the damage in oklahoma. dozens of homes torn apart in the oklahoma city area. the main airport canceled all flights overnight. this is the scene in norman oklahoma. 20 miles from oklahoma city. the cars submerged from the flash flooding. the areas of amber and bridge creek south and west of the metro area reporting heavy damage. >> these storms produced nine confirmed tornadoes in kansas. people in the north central part of the state assessing the damage now the strongest storms have moved through. two homes were severely damaged in sedgewick county. winds so powerful they snapped in two and toppled tombstones. >>> a huge twister in nebraska. a man saw it destroy a farm near the town of hardy on the state line with kansas. not far away with roseland another possible tornado yanked homes off foundations and put others in splinters.

it was important during roman times. the syrian government was able to pull out some statues beforehand but now the rest is in isis' hands. we have seen in other parts of iraq and syria, they are not afraid to destroy any of the artifacts or sell them off. i was at a conference about stolen antiquities. i talked to a former u.s. ambassador who told me about the supply and demand and had advice for americans. take a listen. >> you can call it as we used to call blood diamonds. these are blood antiquities. it is important the american public know when they are buying antiquities, they check it out. they don't want to be involved in unwittingly, terrorist organizations. >> that was wendy chamberlain. she is the president of the middle east institute. at the conference they gave real numbers as well. one of the artifacts can go for up to $1 million which can buy them thousands of ak-47s, millions of rounds and also hundreds of rocket propelled grenades. there is a real benefit for selling antiquities. the international commu

we looked from the beginning as a brick as a building material in egyptian and roman times. we saw that there was a big distinction between brick that was just mud brick, with a compressive strength of 3500 180 kg/cm. pressed brick adds an order of magnitude to the strength of the material. with hydraulic pressing and a lengthy kiln firing, we have doubled the strength of brick yet again. the machines that come online in 1860's allow us to achieve the same structural path with about a quarter of the material. if you graph the progressive height of a typical chicago skyscrapers between the great fire and of the great depression, you find that there is a generation of buildings fairly early on that expresses the arrival of these break pressing machines into the city. skyscraper heights jump noticeably on average a few stories at a time. the greatest examples is the montauk, built on munro street where first national bank is now, it was described as the end all of chicago skyscrapers. why would you ever needs to go higher than 10 stories, right? it would not even be the tallest

i'm christine romans. it is friday may 22nd. 4:00 a.m. in the east. the manhunt for daron wint is over. the murder suspect was taken into custody last night near washington. the 34-year-old exmarine killed his employer along with the executive's wife son and family's housekeeper before setting the mansion on fire. here is what we know about wint's arrest. he was tracked to new york city and took off just before officers arrived. he was found at a hotel in college park maryland with five other people. three men, two women. police say all six left the hotel in two vehicles and followed for five miles before apprehended. no one was hurt during the arrests. wint has a long history with run-ins with police. he has three assault records dating back to 2008. he has an outstanding arrest warrant for violating an order of protection with a former girlfriend. he has been charged with violence and burglary and assault. he insists there is no way the exmarine could commit this type of crime according to his attorney. >> it's not his act. he's a nice guy. he's pat

come back, i'll tell you about that next. >>> i'm christine romans. get an early start on your money this wednesday morning. u.s. stock futures are higher. a reversal from yesterday when the dow fell 142 points. the nasdaq it lost 1.6%. why? well the trade deficit is at a six-year high thanks to a strengthening dollar. and oil prices are climbing above $60 a barrel right now for the first time since december. oil prices collapsed because of oversupply. but they've been creeping up steadily since march. sheryl sandberg posting a moving tribute to her husband, her late husband, on facebook. last night after a memorial service, the facebook executive called dave goldberg her rock. she said quote, we had 11 truly joyful years of the deepest love happiest marriage and truest partnership that i could imagine. the 47-year-old ceo of surveymonkey died friday after falling on the treadmill while on vacation in mexico. just a sad story. we wish sheryl sandberg and her family only the best. >>> traditional retirement may be a thing of the past. according to a ne

. >> i'm christine romans. it is friday may 8th. we have breaking news from the united kingdom. forecast as a close election but returns show solid gains for the conservative party. prime minister david cameron will keep his job. this as the scottish national party makes big gains at the labour party. we have the latest with erin mclaughlin. >> reporter: good morning, christine. shocking and unprecedented. all words used to describe the election. you know going into this many thought british prime minister david cameron would struggle to hold on to downing street. the map simply did not look like it was in his favor. the polls showing people thought a hung parliament. those polls seeming to be wrong this morning. his conservative party on track according to some projections to win an outright majority in parliament and if not that then enough seats to at the very least, form a workable government. prime minister cameron could not be more pleased. take a listen. >> some people say, in fact i often said, there is only one opinion poll that counts. that's the one on election day. i

times to be roman catholic saints.heir sainthood is seen as supporting christians in the middle east who have faced persecution. a lot report from west jerusalem. ♪ >> reporter: a song of praise in honor of sister marine al al fran cease galas. she founded this congregation of the sisters of the most holy jerusalem during the ottoman area. she along with sister maria gorabi in 1846 and founded con vents have become the first palestinian saints in modern times. the canonization ceremony follows an announcement by the vatican it would soon sign the first treaty with the state of palestine, lending legal weight to recognition it extended more than two years ago. alves traveled from brazil to take part in prayers in the honor. she says the lives of both nuns and their legacies are inspiring. >> they are incredible like the faithful, what things -- what they did. >> a sentiment shared by many. >> the decision by pope francis to bestow sainthood is seen as an attempt by the vatican to give hope to the middle east christians

the two 19th century nuns who have become the first palestinians in modern time to become roman catholicnts. >> reports are coming in that a key city in iraq has fallen to isil according to al jazeera sources. they say troops have left the city's counterterrorism center and regrouped west of the city. state t.v. is reporting that the iraqi premier has ordered troops not to abandoned their positions in ramadi. this amateur footage shows what appears to be government forces fleeing. the men filming say this is the futile military the failed government. watch their tank leave. earlier, isil fighters attacked a government buing with suicide car bombers killing 22 security officials. u.s.-led coalition, meanwhile, is hitting isil positions with airstrikes in ramadi as well as elsewhere in iraq. anbar's provincial council, sunni, is allowing shiia muon lim officials to join the fight. ramadi is in the center of iraq the capitol of anbar province which has been mostly under isil control since last year. it is 100 kilometers from the capital, baghdad. zeina zeina k had. odr has more. >> reporter

with a plow held in front, a reference to the legendary roman leaders. what makes this little print even more fascinating is that is connection to another element of the visual culture of the day completely lost to future generations. public spectacles often include something called at the time a transparency, which is a large painting on oiled paper and that is what made it transparent and unfortunately, very flammable. lit from behind by candles. needless to say, these images made for parades, ceremonies and other public gatherings didn't have much life expectancy. those who survived the evening without bursting into flames were doomed by the oil and the size of the fragile paper. they don't exist today. they have an important public presence. the explanation of the frontispiece here actually describes the event that preceded it, which started with a splendid public dinner at the oilers hotel, held in march 1797 to honor washington on the occasion of his retirement. after dinner, the guests marched to a neighbor theater, where there was a special enter

i'm christine romans. >> and i'm john berman. it is 4:00 a.m. in the east. officials are warning that the storms that killed six people in oklahoma and texas. officials say the missing likely including some children are from two families gathered at a vacation home for the long weekend. that home just washed away in a flash flood. with the ground completely saturated, forecasters are warning there may be more flash flooding ahead. the texas governor greg abbott adding to the disaster declaration to 37 counties. >> we are urging all citizens to get out of harm's way. don't risk your lives by trying to not evacuate the water that may be rising. >> across the region, hundreds of rescues and narrow escapes. >> oh, my gosh! he needs to get out! oh my god! >> that terrifying situation in kendall county texas. it had a happy ending. the 68-year-old driver was able to get out of that suv and make it to safety. elsewhere, crews rescued people by land and water. this is in austin. this is in caldwell county where a blackhawk helicopter pulled the man from the truck. h

. >> and i'm christine romans. it's 4:00 a.m. exactly in the east. breaking overnight, in philadelphia five people five people killed. officials say another 53 hospitalized. there are six people six of those passengers right now in critical condition. amtrak northeast regional number 188 from washington, d.c. to new york crashed around 9:30 last night, derailed around 9:30 last night, carrying 238 passengers and 5 crew. seven cars and the train's engine overturned crushed and torn apart by the force. the pictures really really spell out the devastation there. now, the cause not yet known. this is how the city's mayor and fire chief described the scene. >> we do not know what happened here. we do not know why this happened. there is no information about that. we're not going to speculate about it. >> i've never seen anything so devastating devastating. they're clearly in bad shape. you can see they completely completely derailed from the truck. they've been destroyed. the aluminum shell has been destroyed and they're overturned completely. again, i do

i'm christine romans. u.s. stock futures are higher.t to may after a rough end to april. the s&p and nasdaq fell 1%. stocks across the board were hit. apple and google and starbucks. all down 2%. renewed fears the american economy may be slowing down. >>> top democrats pushing a higher minimum wage on capitol hill. a new bill would increase the federal minimum wage to $12 by 2020. the federal minimum wage has not been raised since 2009. many states and cities and companies have taken the issue and raised wages. some need it to retain their best workers. >>> tesla will cut your electricity bill by 25%. the company unveiling a wall-mounted home battery called the powerwall. it connects to the power grid and charges overnight when electricity costs less. customers can turn it on during the day to power their homes. the device starts at $3,000. utility companies may offer rebates. tesla ceo elon musk says other home batteries on the market suck. >>> "early start" continues now. happening now, thousands demanding answers in the death of fred

i'm christine romans. let's get an early start on your money.tes in the most closely fought election in a long time. arefir the dow dropped 86 points. oil prices rising and janetuary janet yellen said stock prices are high. >>> do you want to make a lot of money? manage major in engineering. number one is petroleum engineering. workers with that made $136,000 a year. the second is pharmaceutical sciences with $113,000 a year. over the lifetime those will earn more than those majors in education and literature. >> you know money is not everything. money can buy a lot of things but money cannot buy you? >> love. if you are not good in engineering, find something else you can use in the science, technology and math field. >> you can design love. >> highest paid engineering majors are literature majors. >>> "new day" starts now. >>> this large multivortex tornado is getting ready to cross highway 14 in kansas. >> it just came right over this hill. it actually flung the basement doors open. >> we could hear the sound of a train. our ears started popp

our chief business correspondent, christine romans is following the numbers as always. tell us what it means. >> a sigh of relief on wall street and main street carol. in march we saw jobs were not created briskly, and 85,000 jobs created, and that was a worry, but a brisk recovery. the trend here is what is important, you are creating jobs again and again. the unemployment rate falling to the lowest in seven years, and 5.4% and that is important, the trend going down down down. nurses were hired, and hospital workers were hired, and people that work at clinics in the health care centers away from hospitals, lots of hiring there, and computer system design, and management consultants, and construction and you get my drift, a lot of different kinds of jobs created and some of them higher paid, and we saw wages go up 2.2% and that's an important number there as well. african-american male unemployment and that's a number we have been watching and talking about it aggressively since baltimore and over the past year or so 9.2% and the first time since 2008 below double digi

i'm christine romans. let's get an early start on your money. day holiday. here is a happy reminder. stocks in record territory. the nasdaq and s&p are doing better than the dow. an interest rate hike is coming. the fed chief janet yellen says we can expect a hike before the end of the year despite weak economic growth and stagnant wages. >>> 2016 presidential hopefuls promising us the world. the author of freakonomics says it is all wrong. he says politicians focus on raising money and getting elected instead of fixes long-term problems. he says we should pay them more. >> i would give politicians stock options. if arne duncan could really raise u.s. test scores by 10% in ten years, we write a big fat check to arne duncan and people working with him. >> he would like to pay teachers more based on their performance. >>> if you are thinking about buying a new car, today is the day. there are wide range of 0% financing deals out there and this weekend may be one of the last chances to take advantage of them. toyota camry and rav 4, nissan and chev

welcome back to romans. >> i'm john berman. a victory for isis in iraq.fter months of clashes with iraqi forces and isis militants. isis forces burst into the city with armored bulldozers and ten suicide bombings. government forces now pulled out of the military base there. iraqi officials and u.s. officials say the fight for ramadi is not over. that may not be the fact on the ground. let's bring in our correspondent nick paton walsh. >> reporter: john, frankly devastating setback for the iraqi government. a third of the territory was in the sights. quite the opposite has now occurred. the attack started sunday morning. 13 suicide bombers forced their way in. and the fighting that proceeded the final onslaught were not enough warning for the iraqi government to reinforce the forces there. pictures of the military in retreat saying they were unable to hold positions. some say they lacked ammunition and the golden decision part of the withdraw here. 500 said to have been killed in the fighting. fears in the 24 to 48 hours ahead that ramadi will be purged of

you can look at christine romans book. "smart is the new rich." pick one up now. >> for parents paying for their kids' tuition. >> announcer: this is cnn breaking news. >>> welcome to "early start." we have breaking news. a 7.3 magnitude earthquake has hit nepal. the tremors felt as far as new delhi. the epicenter is near the nepalese city of namche near china. there have been six aftershocks. in kathmandu, 50 miles west of the epicenter, panicked crowds ran into the streets. 40 people are reported to have been killed in this town. terrified population in nepal. i want to bring in sumnima udas. she is in new delhi. you just returned from the earthquake on april 25th which killed more than 8,000 people. a country which is struggling to get on its feet and get open for business and now this sumnima. >> reporter: that is right, christine. the scope and scale of the earthquake on april 25th the authorities didn't know until a few days later. took some time until you got outside of kathmandu valley. it was difficult to assess. they are still assessing

i'm john berman. >> i'm christine romans.n texas ordering voluntary evacuations along two rivers worried that predicted rain will cause more flash flooding. this as crews pushing for clean up from imaginemajor flooding this week. houses torn from foundations and cars tossed downstream. the search for bodies underway with at least 21 known dead in texas and oklahoma. one family outside houston spent wednesday searching for the body of 73-year-old alice tovar reported missing when she did not show up for work. >> she's cold. she's wet. she belongs at home. that's where we're trying to get her. you just got to do what you got to do. >> reporter: her body was found late in the afternoon less than 100 yards from the crossing where she went missing. >>> the very latest on the aftermath of the deadly flooding. let's bring in cnn's ana cabrera from wimberley, texas. >> reporter: residents in clean up mode john and christine. nine cabins on this vacation property were mutilated leaving behind the huge piles of wood and twisted metal a

get started at xfinity.com/myaccount >>> i'm christine romans.nald's shareholders are worried about slipping sales, but mcdonald's workers are concerned about wages. about 2,000 protesters gathered near mcdonald's headquarters ahead of the shareholders meeting yesterday. they want $15 an hour wages. mcdonald's is raising pay at least $1 above the local minimum wage starting in july. that effects company owned locations. that is 10% of restaurants. the rest of the restaurants are franchises. earlier this week los angeles voted to raise minimum wage to $15 an hour. that is still a very, very big story in the business world. low wage workers who want a raise. >>> isis gaining new strategic ground in the middle east. another city falls to isis. this one in syria. "new day" has that story. >>> isis now fully in control of the ancient city of palmrya. >> let's hope this wonderful monument is not destroyed. >> now it's at the mercy of isis. >> i will not let the patriot act go unchallenged. >> rand paul ending a 10 and a half hour filibuster on the sena

i'm john berman. >> i'm christine romans. it is 30 minutes past the hour. from the united kingdom. this had been forecast as a close election but it wasn't. returns coming in show solid gain force the incumbent conservative party. prime minister david cameron will keep his job. he is on his way to meet the queen. let's go live to erin mclaughlin live in edinburgh. this is not what the polls predicted. >> reporter: certainly not, christine. shocking and unprecedented. all words used to describe the election in the coming hours of the projections. prime minister david cameron is expected to meet with the queen to request permission to form a government. really unexpected result today. poll after poll after poll in the weeks building up to the elections showed all signs pointing to a hung parliament. now as it stands it looks like the conservative government poised to form a majority. the prime minister tweeting out a picture of himself and his wife samantha promising a better future for everyone. take a listen. >> some people say, and in fact i only said ther

i'm christine romans. it is friday may 15th. 5:00 a.m. in the east. john berman has the morning off. i want to start with breaking news this morning. a u.s. marine helicopter that went missing this week has been found. crashed in the mountains of nepal. a top ranking officer with the nepalese army telling cnn the chopper has been located on the steep slope of a mountain east of kathmandu. there are at least three bodies located in the wreckage. six u.s. marines were on the helicopter helping with the earthquake efforts when the radio contact was lost. i want to bring in cnn's will ripley live in kathmandu. the crash location is east of where you are located. tell us what you learned. >> reporter: just now the u.s. military is confirming with the nepalese army has said for the last few hours. this is the wreckage of the u.s. helicopter that has been missing since tuesday. this helicopter was in the middle of a relief mission 80 miles where i'm standing now. they dropped off a load of supplies and headed to pick up patients that needed to be taken here

they preach their own religions mostly roman catholic or jewish and reader on newspapers. they some of by saying america cannot become a polyglot country and survive. the immigration issue was one of the topics that the clan seized on in order to recruit people at that time. it is a little surprising that one of the places where they had most success was in supporting the labor unions. in july 1922, the railroad workers went on strike brought the country. the klan saw that as an opportunity to recruit new members and jumped in on the side of the union, which is a little surprising considering the things they say about the working class. one of the things about that is the labor union did not include the black and mexican workers at a time. a lot of the black and mexican workers did not go out on strike when the union went on strike. that made it a racial issue. the klan jumped in on the side of the labor union and began to plan events supporting the strike. particularly in kansas city. that was one of the strongest chapters in the state. this is when henry allen really got

i'm christine romans in new york. >> and i'm john berman live in baltimore this morning. it is friday may 1st. it is 5:00 a.m. in the east. we are standing here in front of baltimore city hall which has been the site of so many peaceful demonstrations over the last several evenings and afternoons. the security prevention- presence behind me is reduced. not as many national guard troops here. overnight, protesters did clash with police. you see this right here cnn cameras at the scene when one man was arrested in the streets. we will have much more on the scene here in baltimore in just a moment. first, some important new information. new claims in the death of freddie gray and how he may have suffered that fatal spinal injury while he was? police custody. baltimore police handed their investigative files over to the state attorney's office on thursday one day ahead of schedule. a move that caught people off guard. those files contain new claims about freddie gray's death. among the claims gray was fatally injured in the van and not earlier during his arrest. law enforceme

neutrogena® ultra sheer®. >>> welcome back i'm christine romans.our money" this morning. u.s. stock futures barely budge. a big move yesterday. the dow down 190 points. the worst day this month. the housing market is improving, job confidence improving. that's good news? that could mean an interest rate hike is coming soon. that was the problem in the market yesterday. >>> the most valuable brand in the world, apple. apple's brand is worth $270 billion according to brand z. apple becoming a bigger player in china and other markets. also in the the top five google microsoft, ibm, visa. and here's one that you may not believe, marlboro is the tenth most popular brand in the world. the crackdown has kept its competitors from challenging marlboro's worldwide dominance. >>> and a pulitzer gaining outrage there. an employee there placing fat shames there. writing just another day of fat and hideousness saying you should probably kill yourself. and another one saying but it down carb face. and someone in the company saying that's a cartoon on someone's pr

. >> i'm christine romans. it is tuesday and 5:00 a.m. in the east. officials are warning that storms killed at least six people will likely continue for weeks to come. in hayes county texas, one person confirmed dead and 12 missing. the missing likely including some children two families gathered in a river side vacation home for the long weekend. a home washed away off the foundation by a flash flood. the ground is saturated. forecasters are warning there may be more flash flooding ahead. the texas governor greg abbott added 24 more counties to the disaster declaration bringing the total to 37. >> we are urging all citizens to get out of harm's way. don't risk your lives by trying to not evacuate the water that may be rising. >> across the region there have been hundreds of rescues and also some narrow escapes. >> oh, my god! stop! he needs to get out! >> in kendall county officials say the 68-year-old driver here was able to get out of his suv. stunning. he made it to safety. elsewhere, crews rescued people by land and water. this picture from aust

. >> as jose and his party are doing battle on the floor, a man named roman, a prominent member of the his footing and falls from a ledge. >> suddenly he slipped and fell. he was lying down, and his head was bleeding. and somebody screamed, saying that he was dead. >> he is rushed to the hospital. his life hanging in the balance. >> people started crying. women started yelling. and some of the female members of the government started attacking us, accusing us, saying that we pushed roman loiza. >> people that belongs to the government said it was on purpose. and a terrible fight also started. >> you can see jose in the middle of the melee being beaten from behind. >> that night was like a nightmare. all our fears started becoming true. we were attacked. we were hit. i felt a couple of punches on my head from the back. i almost fainted. >> scared for his life, jose and the rest of the opposition party flee. >> we managed to get out of the theater and run away, literally run away. >> jose runs home and remains there for several hours until he gets a startling phone call warning him that

empire and then on to europe and heart of the roman empire there in rome.d access to different types of goods and materials. the other thing the is it has dry conditions. you can have the preservation of textiles, like wood. and these, we found remarkable finds pieces like that over the history. and all our fears and the concerns is that once isis establishes the city, it's going to start looting the city with extreme measures and all of this will be lost. >> a lot may be looted but not destroyed. that gives some comfort. practically speaking once an item out of the place what's the likelihood of getting it back? >> it's going to be very difficult. you know the black market the elicit antiquityies trade market is a shady market. most items will go into the storerooms or basements of big time dealers to sit for five ten, maybe 15 years before slowly start to make their way out into the open market or rich, wealthy private collectors where they never see the light of day again. even though they are being looted, the chances of us being able to recover those.

i'm john berman. >> i'm christine romans. it's 30 minutes past the hour. you all this wednesday morning. developing this morning, a huge recall of takata air bags a recall that's nearly doubled in size. the japanese auto parts company recalling air bags in 34 million vehicles nearly 1 in 7 cars in the u.s. for the first time after tons of pressure from carmakers and government takata is admitting its air bags are bad. this is the most biggest and complex product recall in u.s. history. costing billions of dollars. this will take years to complete. at least five deaths and dozens of injuries are tied to the faulty air bags which can fire shrapnel into drivers' faces as they deploy. the recall affects different may goes and model including bmws, fords, toyotas but the majority are made by honda. cnn's will ripley is standing by live in tokyo. will this is a huge huge admission from a company that really dominates the air bag business that so many of its air bags are faulty. let's be clear here police who are investigating some of these accidents said they th

a launching point for an attack on damascus that the world heritage site for to cause an year-old roman collins that will destroy the ruined and they have done what many archaeological sites in neighboring iraq happening now ntsb experts are investigating the deadly amtrak train and the roman de looking through close the text messages that were made on the train engineer cell phone and a 50 mi. an hour curb so they're not using his cell phone while there were behind the control criminal charges against him would depend on what the ntsb investigation finds. >>mark: the grand jury indicted douglas use on six charges yesterday to the charges carry up to nine and half years in prison if his schedule appear in federal court today he took off from get is for pennsylvania and arrested at the fixing after landing on the capital was long he told police he wanted to call attention to the influence the tech money in politics. >>mark: he is to court to face charges trying to silence a witness and a double killing this and he shot the man in the face after the man metacomet about the 2012 double mur

. >> i'm christine romans. it is wednesday, may 6th. 5:00 a.m. in the east. new information about the two gunmen shot dead by police sunday as they tried to attack a contest in texas. a contest to draw a cartoon of the prophet mohammed. the white house saying the fbi is still investigating. it's too soon too soon to link isis to the attack. but, counterterror officials are probing the online activity of the gunmen. their names are nadir soofi and elton simpson to see if isis really did have a hand in the plot. cnn justice correspondent pamela brown has the latest for us this morning from phoenix. >> john and christine, officials we've been speaking with say it appears isis is being opportunistic and claiming responsibility for this attack. what is clear here according to officials is that this was more than just aspirational. that this is really reflective of the concern among law enforcement of isis fighters reaching into the u.s. through social media. identifying targets. and finding people to recruit. in fact we know one of the gunmen elton simpson, had be

i'm christine romans. >> i'm john berman. texas officials are worried that heavy rain will cause more flash flooding this morning. this as crews push ahead from the clean up from the major flooding that hit this week. more than a foot of rain pushed water over the banks in hays county texas. the search for bodies is still underway with at least 21 known confirmed deaths at this point in texas and oklahoma. one family outside houston spent wednesday searching for the body of 73-year-old alice tovar. reported missing when she did not show up for work. >> she is cold and wet. she belongs at home. that's where we are trying to get her. you got to do. >> her body was found less than 100 yards from the crossing where she went missing. >> the latest on the aftermath of the deadly flooding. i want to bring in ana cabrera from wimberley, texas. >> reporter: john and christine, the flood was catastrophic. nine cabins on this vacation property were mutilated leaving behind the huge piles oftwisted wood. the owners have had this place in